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It still is. What does it even mean? As far as I can tell it's just a somewhat large factory producing electronic cars.
by Deukhoofd 5y ago
It still is. What does it even mean? As far as I can tell it's just a somewhat large factory producing electronic cars.
- panick21_ 5y agoElon made it up for the factory that produces cells in Nevada. It means a factory that produces many GW/hs of batteries a year. This terms has been widely adopted in the battery industry for large cell manufacturing plants. Tesla has since used this terms more for all its factories. And part of the plan is to build factories where cell production and car manufactures is colocated.
- ragebol 5y agoWell, there was a TV show on Discovery in at least the Netherlands, called Megafactories, is this really that much larger? Car plants are pretty large as they go already. So, after some DDGing, the biggest car plant is Volkswagens' in Wolfsburg, Germany [0] at 6.5 million square meters, while Giga nevada has 11.5 million square meters [1], so twice the size. So it's big, but to go from mega to giga, you'd really need a 1000x increase, rather than a mere 2x increase :-). The Northvolt facility does not qualify for the Giga-prefix IMHO. [0] https://motoroctane.com/news/213409-largest-car-factories-world https://motoroctane.com/news/213409-largest-car-factories-wo.... This page actually positions Giga Nevada at a lower rank, so probably outdated [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Nevada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Nevada
- CorrectHorseBat 5y agoI was under the impression that Giga referred to GigaWh of batteries per year produced
- fastball 5y agoPretty sure the name comes from the idea of producing Gigawatt-hours of battery capacity in one factory (which it does), rather than from the footprint.
- ragebol 5y agoYeah, thought so too after I posted my comment and walked away. Oh well
- numpad0 5y agoCylindrical Li-ion factory with more than GWh/month or 10k cars/month worth of claimed capacity